To lower health care cost, cut medical errors, and improve care, we’ll computerize the nation’s health record in five years, saving billions of dollars in health care costs and countless lives.

Hey! Why dont we sell them NPfIT/CfH? On second thoughts…let’s just see how they go about it. This might turn out to be one of those regrettable “big promises”. But I suspect it will be a case of watch & learn.

Second up:

Instead of politicians doling out money behind a veil of secrecy, decisions about where we invest will be made public, and informed by independent experts whenever possible. We’ll launch an unprecedented effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov.

Why don’t we sell them the House of Lords’ lobbying system? On second thoughts…(repeat until discouraged).

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